Hokusai

American  

[hoh-kuh-sahy, hoh-kuh-sahy, haw-koo-sahy] / ˈhoʊ kəˌsaɪ, ˌhoʊ kəˈsaɪ, ˈhɔ kʊˈsaɪ /

noun

1. Katsushika 1760–1849, Japanese painter and illustrator.

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Hokusai British  

/ ˈhəʊkʊˌsaɪ, ˌhəʊkʊˈsaɪ /

noun

1. Katsushika (ˌkætsuːˈʃiːkə). 1760–1849, Japanese artist, noted for the draughtsmanship of his colour wood-block prints, which influenced the impressionists

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Example Sentences

A refined 1840 Hokusai portrait of a young samurai, painted for a male patron, bears a poem praising the boy’s loveliness with a metaphor about dew-soaked branches.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 7, 2026

Additional pieces contain Murakami’s reimaginings of gilded floral motifs by Katsushika Hokusai, Ogata Korin and Ogata Kenzan; as well as the beautiful women rendered by Kikukawa Eizan.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 18, 2026

Or so it was until Hokusai began integrating Asian and European methods of spatial delineation into a new, hybrid image of the modern world.

From New York Times • Jun. 22, 2023

Frothing waves, inspired by Japanese artist Hokusai and his time in Japan on break from the Army, would appear often.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 29, 2023

But why prate history, why evoke phantoms of the past, when we can gaze on this exquisitely concrete thing—this glad and simple creature of Hokusai?

From Yet Again by Beerbohm, Max, Sir